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Well I went way out
North Carolina way
to that old graveyard
where my great grandmother lay
and the day was bright
and I hadn't slept all night
and they’d sold the place to some guys who were building graduate student housing

No one had raised any objections
they were knocking the headstones down
and the sun was high
when i rolled into town
stood by a nameless hole in the ground
the air was sweet and hot
maybe it was the right grave
maybe not

but the crows, crows, crows
rose, rose, rose
from the grave
the crows, crows, crows
rose, rose, rose
from the grave

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from Devil in the Shortwave, released December 1, 2001

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the Mountain Goats Durham, North Carolina

John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life.
—John Hodgman, 2012
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